National Clam Chowder Day

 

Hey Y'all, I hope you enjoyed your Valentine's meal. I'd love to hear how it went and if there is anything you think we could improve. We had a couple of great suggestions that will definitely help us fine tune our plan for next year. Let me know what you thought of it! Fin Mail (aka Tooting My Fishy Horn):  Malcolm and Lisa W.: Dear Kathleen and Crew: Our Valentine’s meal was beyond scrumptious! In fact, we were so excited about the main course, we ended up eating our shrimp for dessert! Saved our red velvet cupcakes for later! Thank you for providing such an amazing meal in the middle of all this chaos! With appreciation Ellyn F. : We celebrated Valentine’s Day last night due to a family birthday today and it was so very very delicious! Thank you so much and we are so happy to be your customers. Your new Brookhaven store is close to our “kids” who are off Clairmont and we’ve made them aware. Happy Valentine’s Day and many thanks.  Voting For A Fellow Customer: One of our regular customers, Shoshy R., whom we have featured recipes from before, has been entered in a Home Cook Competition by Favorite Chef! You can help by voting for her until February 25th by clicking here. She's currently 7th in her group! Voting also helps support Feeding America. If you haven't seen her blog before, we've linked it here as well - so many yummy h ome-cooked Israeli and Middle Eastern dishes. Good luck, Shoshy! Weekend Special Sides: This weekend only, we have a couple of delicious pre-made sides for you to pick up! First, we have a fresh cucumber salad at just $1.00 for an 8 oz. container.

Second, we have roasted asparagus with tomatoes and garlic butter at just $3.99 for a 2 person portion. The asparagus has simple to follow baking instructions. Is your mouth watering yet?

National Clam Chowder Day 02/25: In honor of National Clam Chowder Day we will be having our ever-popular New England Clam Chowder at both locations on BOGO - buy one cup of soup get one free! (while supplies last). There is one "catch". You HAVE to pronounce it the "correct" way like they do in Boston - CLAM CHOWDA. Introduced in New England in 1700s and previously known as a poor man's dish, clam chowder was the subject of Herman Melville's ode in Moby Dick: "Oh, sweet friends! hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazelnuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuit, and salted pork cut up into little flakes; the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt."

Special This Week: Mahi - 6 oz. portions - $8.99 each

Catch-To-Go This Week Available until Sunday, we have Cajun Shrimp Creole in honor of Mardi Gras !

Starting Monday, we'll have Horseradish Crusted Mahi with Tomatoes and Asparagus. (This is really good. Really really good.)

And Finally

Last week I was called a buzz kill for jokingly mentioning the health consequences of kissing. I hope that no one took me seriously and that you all spent plenty of time kissing on Valentine's Day. It's Lent now. Mardi Gras and Ash Wednesday are behind us and now we look down the road of Lent. It sure feels like Lent, doesn't it? It's dreary and cold here in Atlanta and dangerously frozen in the rest of the country. Covid vaccine appointments are put off due to weather related transportation delays. We just got the news that life expectancy in America has dropped by 1 to 3 years depending on your race. Spring is around the corner. The snow will melt. The vaccines will get here and one day, maybe even one day soon, we will all be living a life of good health, sunshine and plenty of hugs. What to do until then? Take good care. Really good care. Don't worry too much about what you are giving up for Lent this year. You have sacrificed enough. Spend Lent being in love with yourself and your family and those few people you have been lucky enough to isolate with. Smile until you really feel like smiling. Laugh until something really strikes you funny. Don't worry about those extra pounds right now. You are doing just fine. Be kind to yourself. (It wouldn't hurt to eat more fish, though.) When it is all over we will never forget how it was. The lens we view the world through will be much brighter because these days of Covid and cold will always be in our rear view mirror. Happy Friday. Blessings, Kathleen